The Palestinian militant group Hamas says it supports a new ceasefire plan for Gaza that would see five more hostages released to Israel in exchange for a 50-day truce. Khalil al-Hayyam, the most senior Hamas leader outside Gaza, said the group had approved the draft deal sent by Egyptian and Qatari mediators. The office for…
Most employees at the US Institute of Peace, a congressionally created and funded thinktank now taken over by Elon Musk’s unofficial “department of government efficiency”, received email notices of their mass firing late Friday, the latest step in the Trump administration’s government downsizing. The emails, sent to personal accounts because most staff members had lost…
Trinity Rodman says she has a back injury that the U.S. women’s national team star says likely will keep her from ever being really healthy again. Rodman, 22, has had back issues since her rookie season with the Washington Spirit in 2021. She aggravated the injury last September when she was taken off the field…
The leaders of Harvard University’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies are leaving their positions after the center faced accusations of anti-Israel bias. The departures come as the Trump administration scrutinizes institutions who have had pro-Palestine protests over the last year. Earlier this week, Columbia’s president announced she will step down after Trump targeted the university…
Washington’s former envoy to Kabul says an American citizen has been released by the Taliban government after being held for two months. Zalmay Khalilzad, who served as the US special representative for Afghanistan from 2018-2021, said on the social media platform X that Faye Hall will “soon be heading home” after she was arrested by…
Hundreds of thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators have returned to the streets of Istanbul, Turkey, in support of the city’s jailed mayor. Ekrem Imamoglu, who is seen as the main political rival to Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was arrested on corruption charges last week, sparking mass protests. He denies the charges and claims his arrest…
The parents of a nine-year-old girl have said they were held at a police station for 11 hours because they complained about their daughter’s primary school. Maxie Allen and his partner, Rosalind Levine, said they were arrested and detained on suspicion of harassment, malicious communications and causing a nuisance on school property. The couple said…
President Donald Trump’s 25% tariff on foreign-made vehicles and parts stands to raise prices on vehicles by thousands of dollars, according to industry economists and other analysts. Sticker prices are already near record highs — just shy of $50,000 on average, Cox Automotive. A record number of buyers are delinquent on their auto loan payments,…
There’s swinging the bats well, and then there’s what the New York Yankees did against the Milwaukee Brewers on Saturday. On the first pitch of the lower half of the first inning, Paul Goldschmidt sent a Nestor Cortes pitch into Milwaukee’s bullpen. Then, Cody Bellinger got under a ball high in the zone on the…
Play with clay! Kendall and Kylie Jenner, Gwyneth Paltrow, Seth Rogen, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and Hailey Bieber have been flocking to Patrick Johnston’s Temple of Mediclaytion ceramics studio in Venice, California, and there’s a special reason why. The artist, who has become known for his signature hugged and loved vases, sat down with ET to share why A-listers can’t get enough…
